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Monday, September 19, 2016

But I think the team is very passionate, and recovered from many
difficulties. And now, Carp is very popular among the Japanese people.

So, I would like to explain about the great
points of Hiroshima Carp.

First of all, Hiroshima Carp is one of the
professional baseball teams in Japan.

The team has the proficient history.

The team was born in 1950 just after the
atomic bomb.

Just after the atomic bomb, Hiroshima city
lost everything.

Of course, the citizens in Hiroshima were
at a loss to live.

They lost their house, family, money, friends and so on.

But some of the people in Hiroshima
proposed that they established the professional baseball team in Hiroshima to
make the citizens full of vigor.

They thought that there was nothing other
than the professional baseball to make them full of energy.

At that time, there were some strong teams
in Japan like Yomiuri Giants, Hanshin Tigers. These teams had much funds to run
the company and their teams very well.

On the other hand, Hiroshima citizens
didn’t have enough money to establish the team. That’s why they came to a
deadlock, but one of them came up with a good idea, the idea was to collect
money from the people in Hiroshima city to make team.

Then, they prepared the huge barrel in
front of the Hiroshima station, and passerby put money into the barrel. That’s
how they could collect the money to establish the team, but it was not abundant.

However, the idea was said to be
successful.

They
managed to make the team, and they named the team ‘Carp’. The reason why the team was named Carp is said to be
that carp is very strong fish, Hiroshima city recovered from the tragedy of atomic bomb. Of
course, the city was very strong like Carp.

But
it always faced many problems, especially in terms of budget.

In addition, the team was very weak, Hiroshima
was always at the 5th or 6th place in the central league.
(The League consists of 6 teams.)

In order to be the top of the league, they
practiced, trained very much. The training of the team was said to be hardest
in Japan at that time.

In spite of hard training, every year the team was said to be not
necessary in the Central League.

But, the team had the chance to become the
champion in 1975 first time, and at last, Hiroshima became the champion in the
central league. It was the first time for them.

Hiroshima Carp was the kinds of the symbol
concerning recover from the atomic bomb for the people in Hiroshima.

Almost all
of the citizens in Hiroshima were greatly delighted at the first time champion.

Since then Hiroshima had become the
champion 6 times until 1991.

But, after that, the team had faced the many
kinds of difficulties.

The rule concerning move of players to the other team
was changed after that. The rule is that players who was registered on the list
of first team more than 10 years can move to the other teams. The rule is very
advantageous for the team which has abundant funds. It is the rule of “Free
Agency”. When the player uses this right, the player talk with the team which
he wants to move to. If the team says it is OK for him to join the team, he can
move to the team.

So, many famous players went into Yomiuri
Giants, as a result, the team was getting stronger very much. On the other
hand, Hiroshima became not so strong again.

From 1992 to 2015, Hiroshima couldn’t
become the champion. And it was always in 5th or 6th
place.

During that, many famous players went out
from Hiroshima.

Especially in 2007, after the season, two
main force players left Hiroshima Carp.

Takahiro Arai(Cleanup batter)

Hiroki Kuroda (Ace pitcher)

Hiroki Kuroda went to Major League
Baseball. He couldn’t give up his dream playing in USA.

After he declared moving to USA, the fun of
Carp were very sad, but they hoped his success in Major League.

At first, he started his career as the
Major League baseball player in Los Angels Dodgers. Of course he got excellent
results these terms, so, during the play in Dodgers, he got the offer from New
York Yankees, and moved to the team.

After that, he played very well, and became
one of the most important pitcher of Yankees.

But, 2014, he declared that he returned to
Hiroshima in spite of huge amount of money offered by the other team(It was
reported 18million dollars).

Actually he denied the other Major League’s
team’s offer(18million dollars), and decided to come back to Carp 3.9million dollars.

He said that he wanted to help Carp to
become the champion before he finished his career someday. Kuroda said that “Because
of Carp, I have been able to be successful as the professional baseball player.”

In addition to Kuroda, Takahiro Arai
returned to Carp also from Hanshin Tigers this year.

The fun of the team were very delighted and
moved by his decision.

10th September 2016, Hiroshima
Carp won the Yomiuri Giants and became the champion of the Central League in
Japan at last, of course because of two great players, Kuroda and Arai. After
the game, they moved to cry. Their tears were very beautiful.

It was the first time in 25 years for
Hiroshima to be the top of the League.

In my opinion, it is very great for the
regional team to become the champion beating many strong teams, without getting
good players from the other teams.